The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits Explained

The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits
Type:	studio album
Artist:	The Everly Brothers
Cover:	SingGreatCountryHits.jpg
Released:	October 1963
Recorded:	June 20 & 21, 1963 Nashville, TN
Length:	29:35
Label:	Warner Bros.
Prev Title:	Christmas with the Everly Brothers
Prev Year:	1962
Next Title:	Gone, Gone, Gone
Next Year:	1964

The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits is an album by the Everly Brothers, originally released in 1963. It was re-released on CD in 2005 on the Collectors' Choice Music label.

Reception

Allmusic stated in their review: "The singing is some of the most beautiful in the Everlys' output, and the arrangements are models of creative simplicity — and for fans of the duo, it's almost as essential a record as Roots."

Track listing

Side one

1. "Oh Lonesome Me" (Don Gibson) – 2:17
2. "Born to Lose" (Frankie Brown, Ted Daffan) – 2:24
3. "Just One Time" (Don Gibson) – 2:19
4. "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On" (Hank Locklin) – 2:32
5. "Release Me" (Eddie Miller, Dub Williams, Robert Yount) – 2:21
6. "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" (Hal Blair, Don Robertson) – 2:24

Side two

7. "I Walk the Line" (Johnny Cash) – 2:40
8. "Lonely Street" (Carl Belew, Kenny Sowder, W.S. Stevenson) – 2:22
9. "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (Dick Reynolds, Jack Rhodes) – 2:16
10. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams) – 2:57
11. "Sweet Dreams" (Don Gibson) – 2:48
12. "This Is the Last Song I'm Ever Going to Sing" (Jerry Allison, Sonny Curtis) – 2:15

Personnel

• Don Everly – guitar, vocals
• Phil Everly – guitar, vocals
• Glen Campbell- guitar
• Sonny Curtis- guitar
• Billy Strange-guitar
• Red Rhodes- steel guitar
• Bert Dodson- bass
• Hal Blaine- drums
• Leon Russell- piano

External links

• Collector's Choice Music reissue liner notes by Richie Unterberger.